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[quote=Anonymous]This entire thing is essentially a debate about what the funding priorities are for MCPS and how to best handle a budget shortfall.  For several years, the vast majority of money cut came from teachers salaries/benefits.  Steps and COLA's were frozen and the % of health care the employees paid increased.   This saved hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget.  Class sizes were also raised, which also saved money, though not as much as the MCPS employees giving up their contractually negotiated raises.

Essentially the employees and MCPS agreed to break contracts to give back a good bit of money.  This time around MCPS elected to honor the contracts at the expense of raising classes sizes.

It would seem unreasonable to every time their is a budget crisis ask MCPS employees to bare the brunt of the crisis, just as it would to never ask them to.

Of course another option that isn't really discussed much here is to either change some of the staffing to move professional employees who don't interact with kids (staff development, content specialists, teachers that only evaluate other teachers, etc.) back to the classroom or the dreaded raise taxes to pay for the system you want to have.

But to suggest that every time their is a budget crisis the teachers bare the vast majority of the impact seems rather unreasonable.  [/quote]

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